Dr David Jenkins
Senior Research Fellow
Parasitology
Charles Sturt University
Australia
Biography
David has had a long research interest in taeniid infestations in macropods, particularly Echinococcus granulosus, and joined CSU in 2008 to further his research activities in the CSU veterinary parasitology group. David is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, Australian National University (ANU), a part-time lecturer in parasitology at both the University of Sydney and ANU, visiting Research Fellow, School of Botany and Zoology, ANU.
Research Interest
His main research interests revolve around prevalence of hydatid tapeworm infection in rural dogs and influence of wildlife reservoirs. I am also involved in the immuno-detection of hydatid tapeworm infection in wild and domestic canids through detection of hydatid tapeworm antigens in faeces (you may never meet the infected dingo or fox, but you know they are around).
